Tales of a Midwestern Twirl Girl

AN ENTIRE MONTH!?

2007-12-24T13:13:00.000-06:00

So I didnt keep up with my weekly blog. oops. BUT its my dear darling memory's fault. i had forgotten my password.

Thanksgiving was lovely, both days.Played guitar hero much of Thursday with my cousins. Then the next day I spent with my mother side, the Vieths. With a surprise visit of my cousin Matt. We left a little early to have the 2nd Annual Fooseball Tournament with the Girmans.

Other than that I've been busy with school and signing up for college stuff, housing and dining alll sent and paid for even. Found out that me and my friend Evan are in charge of TEC, the retreat i LOOOOOVVVVVEEE. We're both excited.

Yesterday I had Christmas with the Girmans. So much food and games and talking. I'm still full. I got from my cousin a little book of sayings and a giftcard and from my grandparents, $ and a cute hat which i LOVE. Because Adam and Lindsey are spending Christmas Eve in Madison, we opened family presents today. I got a scarf, gloves, cute flashlight key chains from Lindsey/Adam. and my parents definitly surprised both me and Em, and Lindsey and Adam with Wiis. Me and Em also got a guitar hero. Wow they spoil us. just dont tell them I said that :)

Well I'll assume that I'll be on again after Christmas.

Argh

2007-11-21T22:47:00.000-06:00

Episode #2

2007-11-11T20:35:00.000-06:00

This school week ended in 2 tests and 1 quiz. Eeek. I hate the last week of the quarter. But none the less I'm doing fantastic in school, all A's but 1. And its a 92.34%..so close. Anywho: i had off of school on Friday for teachers to get all the grades together and such. So you'd THINK I'd sleep in until noon, eat ice cream for breakfast etc.

Nope.

I woke up at 4:00 am to leave the house by 5. Where did I go to at such an early hour? Me and my mother hauled the Mazda's butt to Winona State University. i slept for almost the entire ride up. We toured the campus and dorms in which it only finalized my decision to go there. I hope to stay in Maria Hall on the west campus with my friend Lindsey. But if not, the QUAD. woot woot. I'm excited.

After the long ride home (once again, me sleeping) I went to my friend Courtney's house and watched V for Vendetta. very good. BUT Emily called us to say that Courtney's sister Amy, was coming over to trash my room.
(i have trashed her's, it a little war that we have going on and she was getting back at me)
but i choose to let her go ahead, when i could have went home and stopped her. I came home to a streamer-ed, tped, forked, confettied bed room. I crashed in the guest room and it took me 2 hours on Saturday to clean it up.

oh well. I'll get her back. and Sunday, was just..Sunday. Cleaned. admired the car I'll be driving this winter:a grey jeep grand Cherokee.

So if you know anyone that would want to buy the '89 BMW convertable...let us know!!

This next week, Manu, a French guy who lives in Germany, is coming to WI to visit his favorite family (us!) EXCITING!!!

The Lame Life

2007-11-03T23:06:00.000-05:00

“Boredom: the desire for desires”
I don't exactly know what I'm desiring, but this week has been filled with boring classes and boring homework.

Except for Thursday.
Thursday was fun.

You see, KM Boy's Soccer team went to State and the game was in Milwaukee at 2:00. KM is VERY supportive of any team that gets as far as state, and even teams that dont. Well I start from the beginning: I left school shortly after photo then went out to lunch with 2 of my friends. When we finally met up with Lindsey, Hannah and Ashley, we all packed into Lindsey beast of a SUV and headed towards Mayfair. BUT FIRST we stopped at the mall to see if Jake, a boy that we are acquaintances with, was indeed on a Hollister bag. He was. Yes my friends, a boy, from little KMHS is a model. Its weird. After getting some Starbucks, we made the crazed traffic journey to Uhline. Tremper was playing Middleton but lost. Either way, KM fans took over where Tremper had sat and we cheered on what wasn't a good game. My soccer genes were unhappy.

That was my exciting event for the week. LAME I know.

It's just another "episode" of Abbey's Lame Life.

That was the exciting

What Has Been Up.

2007-10-21T20:25:00.000-05:00

I have come to realize that I don't write on this enough. So before I start to write on this more opften, I think I should tell you what has been up since July 4th.

-My sister got married.

-I went to TEC yet again. This is me and my friend Erika.

-Went camping with family friends (The Rhodes) and my friend Andy in Governor Dodge park

-Had a movie night at my friend Courtney's house with our friend Tyler.

-Dressed up as a
Gangster

80's Jogger

all white.

among other things for football games. Its been a couple of years but KM Lasers are in the playoffs!!! We won all but 1 game...and that was against #1 in the state!!

-Enjoyed my last homecoming as a senior.

And last but not least:
-Got accepted to both Winona State University and Carthage College. I'm waiting for Luther now.

I think thats about it. Check in a bit to see the new posts!

BORING SUMMER

2007-07-04T11:19:00.000-05:00

enough said.

Summer

2007-06-10T23:40:00.000-05:00

What have i done in my 2.5 days of freedom.
-Friday i went shopping with Courtney and Amy Schinner at Brookfield square (quite successful in buying perfume, zip up hoodie, and i forgot the other thing)
-Saturday i took the ACT the second time, in Burlington, AKA construction zone. eek, none the less i was STARVING afterwords and it took me like 30 to drive across a town smaller than Delafield.
- Sunday-got woken up early to go to church, deep cleaned my room.

I still haven't been able to have a summer morning. So as a birthday request, NO ONE IS WAKING ME UP...YAY!!!

But now...to become a co-director (one of 2 teen leaders) of TEC (teens encounter Christ) I have to write an essay. not just any essay, i have to answer
Who Am I
Past TEC experiences
What gifts can i offer as co-director.

the answer.

i have no idea.

Summer is coming

2007-05-30T19:45:00.000-05:00

Today was the first day that a couple things smacked me in the face.
#1 How much Im going to miss my senior friends..

#2 I'm ALMOST A SENIOR
meaning i have to start applying to colleges this summer.

#3 Summer is within my GRASP!!

So what are my plans for the summer??

-ACT---June 9th( first offical day of summer eeeekk)
-3 Graduation Parties---June 23rd (Matt Vieth, Ashley Nisson, and the Macovek brothers)
-Summerfest June 28th- July 8th
-Northern TEC---June 29th-July 1st
-Lifest with Ascension Youth---July 11th-15th
-Lindsey's Wedding---July 28th
- TEC 27---August 3rd-5th

I dont have 1 "vacation" just a bunch of busy busy days

Junior Prom-read all of it to understand the pictures

2007-05-06T09:55:00.000-05:00

I think that after 3 months of --------(nothing) i should finally blog SOMETHING. Sadley I live a very uneventful life until last/this morning was prom. I am one to tell with mainly pictures. But first here is the infomation

dress-Prom and Pagent Spot for $355. yes i paid for it by myself and the most expensive dress i heard about was nearly $1000.
prom ticket-$70
alterations-no ideas that would be the parentals
hair-Marcy at the Artistry in Kenosha (ill explain later) $40.

Prom Theme-Havana Nights
Song-"Iris" Goo Goo Dolls
Colors-Sage Green, Ivory, Tangerine
Flower-Gerbera Daisy (my favorite!!)
Post Prom-AMF blwing Lanes
King and Queen-Emily Hunzinger and Keith Alexander

First of all it was a beyond crazy Saturday. The kind were you disapointly have to wake up early. Why? I had to go to the dentist. in kenosha. an hour away. But none the less it was over quickly and after an hour of sitting, i went to go get my hair done. I had to pick up my dress at 1:00 and it was like 10 after noon when me and my mother left. Thankfully we didnt get pulled over (though my freaking out didnt help, but hey i wasnt done with makeup, didnt have a dress or my post prom stuff ready even to go for pictures @ 2!).
We were late for those pictures which turned out okay, my date was even later because he couldnt find his keys. We took probably 100 pictures at Melanie's house.
(me, Miranda, Melanie, Marsha)

(me, garrett, melanie, kyle, miranda, kevin, marsha)
(kyle, garrett, kevin)
THEN we went to Kevin's house to take even more pictures
. Finally we left for Grand March which eeek. that line was LONG i thought it would never end.
(jessica bahrs and i)
Same with the bus ride to Milwaukee Zoo. Yes. we had prom at the Peck Welcoming Center at the Zoo (also the Primate area). We got there, spotted a table and as soon as that happened, the lines for food stretched all around. For one plate of pasta, it took forever. good thing i wasnt that hungary. Um the usual dance thing happened then, dancing, "ahh its so hot now lets get something to drink." and dancing and singing, annoucing of court and king and queen. more of that. Then the cold, windy walk to the post prom buses. eeeekkk cold. changing in a tiny room with girls with HUGE dresses wasnt that thrilling either. Mainly we were happy to be in jeans and normal shoes.
(Lora from Belgium and me)
(Savannah and I)
We only stayed until 1:30 but it took until 2 for us to get onto a bus BACK to the HS. Which was fine. We were all going to Kyles anyways. And because of my lack of sleep at the moment: i do not remember that part, we were all kinda dead, even the kids that didnt go to prom crashed HARD. I got home 8ish and am trying to ignore my drooping eyelids. fun fun night

Long Time

2007-02-13T21:48:00.000-06:00

Since my last post, almost 6 months ago i have:

-Went to my tec retreat, made several new friends because of it.
-started helping at my church's confirmation group
-Had a boyfriend for 2 months. (Bradley from Burlington) we are still good friends and talk often.
-Bash on the Grass
-Had a good Christmas and Thanksgiving
-Went to TEC again! made MORE friends and had 3 of my friends join me as "weekenders"
-Nothing.

My sister has announced her very unexpected engagement, which i..accept.

Hello

2006-07-29T12:03:00.000-05:00

Hello. Tec is only a week away...YAY!!!! sadly i havent worked on my speech much but everytime i have an idea, im busy with something, and by the time i can write down the idea or start to write my speech i forget the thing. GRRR

IPOD HELP

2006-07-17T23:09:00.000-05:00

So as we all know, on my flieght to Germany, i was surprise to find that every single song was deleted off my ipod mini. SO naturally when i came home i tried to get my ipod to add my songs again. All of my songs were still on iTunes BUT when i tried to get it on, it only added like 110 songs which wasnt that many to my 900 some songs. If anyone has any ideas on what the heck happened or whatever please let me know.

PICTURES-some

2006-07-09T14:25:00.000-05:00

ahh the streets of Stuttgart
this is the place with the best ravioli!
St.Goer's Castle=the coolest castle ever (even if it is just ruins!)
bit tired?
Munich...#1 faovrite city in germany
They got bored
Nikki and my faovrite car at the Mercedes-Benz museum
Munich at night
Me and Miou, the french exchange student. (thats also my new pick and grey shirt..i LOVE it
THe oldest Jewish graveyard..some were over 100o years old.
GOOD BYE!!!
The oh so famous GLOCKENSPEIL..its not all that thrilling thoug
Mannheim..after Germany won against Argentina.
The entire group at the englisher garten. You can kinda see the polka band up there!
cute port-a-potties
"COVER YOUR CUCUMBER, dont give AIDS a chance." Yes those are condoms
Isnt Charly the dog DARLING!?!?!
"Work Makes You Free" At the concertration camp This is Neuschweinstein. The castle were i ran down with 3 others..in the hale and rain.
The Beer Hall. the Americans from left to right. Joe Huber, Sean Collins and Dylan O'Conner
Are you a Cool American?? (Instead of Cool Ranch)
Heidelberg..isnt it beautiful? I think this is from the castle
Thats my room...
Thats the house..it looks tiny but it was pretty big.

Home Sweet Home

2006-07-09T14:13:00.000-05:00

Yup I'm home! I arrived back at the high school around 6 pm and mom dad and em and my favorite thing from taco bell met with me there. Someone (ahem) painted my room while i was gone my favorite color teal!I was barly awake that night (no sleep on the plane or either bus ride) i went to sleep at like 7 on the chair, woke up at 1 and went to bed bed. Saturday i just lazied around..napping again for a couple of hours. remessying up my room. Sunday..went to church (early service) saw Jeremy Swenson and Courtney Schinner (yay friends!) and then worked in the nursery for an hour. One of the 1 year old kids that i watch Michael, burned his hands on a grill, bless his heart. He cried quite a bit, even though his hands were bandage up, but i didnt blame him!! Now im watching the world cup. Italy vs France. Im personally rooting for France. WAHOO!! Tonight i go to the Goo Goo Dolls concert at Summerfest with my "brother" Andy. It will be fun!

PS Thanks everyone who got me presents for my birthday. It was good to come home to them!

37°C =99°F

2006-07-05T13:04:00.000-05:00

YES It is UNGODLY hot. We took the 30 minute train ride to Mannheim today and it was soo crowded we didnt find seats. THEN we took the LOVELY tram rides (also filled with hot sweaty stinky people) to this museum. Usuaully im okay with musuems but this one. OOOOO horrible. All it was about (an hour..on 1 3000 year old thing) was this thing that they found that shows the stars and stuff. This..need i remind you was in a small, dark room, with not air circulating, and 20 other sweaty bodies. ICK. The only part i liked was when we actually got to see this 'thing of wonder.' it was in a dark cooler room where almost everyone sat down and took a nap. It was lovely. Another busy tram ride took us to the Planetraium. OOO I LOVED IT!!!!!!!! Mostly because when we went to see it, it had AIR CONDITIONING, and this COMFY relaxing seats, and i could rest my eyes because it was all in german!!!! Lots of people slept, including Mr.Merchant who snored, but i however enjoyed looking at the stars at 1 pm. OOO and while we were waiting for our train, i tried..get this SUSHI. I liked it a lot!!!! (Thank you sean collins!!) but since it was just 1, i got a sandwich at mcdonalds (im so american its funny) and fed my craving for ice cream (im telling you..its an addiction!!) The train ride home was funny as me and kyle giggled at this one guy sleeping in front of me. hee hee hee. Alright. 2 more days until im home. (PS please please please donate some amazing ice cream too my house!!!)

A Wave of Saddness

2006-07-05T00:10:00.000-05:00

SWEEPS over germany as in the last minute of overtime, Italy scores twice. OOOO woe is me. It was actually very sad to not hear 1 chant in the streets tonight. waaaawwwww (baby cry)

BUT now im cheering for FRANCE, mainly because they beat Brazil. But i ask you. Should i spend €65 on a German soccer jersey?? Let me remind you, i have only bought about €90 in stuff for me (not including food) and only €30 or so on presents for others. Im guessing a little more then another 30 for the rest of the presents. which is mostly candy. SO leave as many comments as possible, to let me know your opinion of the 65 euro jersey.

the FUN weekend

2006-07-02T07:00:00.000-05:00

So it started around 3 pm on friday when me, katie, ally, marsha and stephanie got on the train with the plastics (thats what 4 of our partners are called) to Mannheim. In Mannheim there is a big stadium like thing where you can watch the soccer games on this huge flat screen. It took 45 minutes to get INSIDE the Rosengarten. We never even got into the actual 'stadium' it was too full. So with about 100 to 200 other people we went down to the basement and watched the Germany vs. Argentina game. Us 5 (the plastic got inside to the stadium) were all sitting there when a group of like mid 2o's year old guys come and sit by us. They were already drunk but spoke pretty good english. They were hilarious drunks. Alas Germany won the game and we packed onto the crowded train back to Frankenthael. me and Ally had a play date set up. I slept over at a persons house i barly knew. But before that. all the plastic were going to go to a club but we didnt have any fake ids (18 or older) so they dropped us off at some bar in frankenthael called the galery. After a drink we went in search of french fries and or ice cream. We found uor ice cream (its an addiction now..) and this AMAYING spinny thing in the middle of the pedestrian only road. it was like a spinning rod with a circular platform and we probably spent a good hour on that. that is until a drunk italian (italy had just won) old guy comes up and tried to get us to go on it with them. Needless to say, we ran away. then on saturday, we again went to mannheim for shopping. I bought a ring from H&M and an adorble peach and grey striped shirt with about 8 buttons. I loved it. In mannheim i saw MAUD!!! The French girl from my german class! It was great seeing her again. About an hour of being home, we left AGAIN to go to this festival. It was much like the Waukesha county fair with rides, food, beer ya know. and i was sitting there making friends with some of the other exchange students when these goth guys come up with alcohol on their breath. Andy and Johann were they're named. The weird thing was that they didnt seem drunk when all teh sights of their tokens, proved they were definitly. We had a good time making fun of them and i got hit on my Johann but then *thankfully* the lovely MAUD came to rescue me. And we talked and took some pictures. We left around midnight and marsha, matie me santrine and julie packed into the car. The Americans thought we were going home..wrong we went to Mannheim to just walk around. The river was pretty but we were exchausted and left around 2. I stayed up talking with mi famila and trying to get ahold of my best friend who was leaving for the Dominican Republic this morning. I slept uintil noon and now im just relaxing until 6 were im off to the same festival! yay for summer!

THE MISS LIST

2006-07-01T10:53:00.000-05:00

FROM WISCONSIN (in no particular order)
-friends
-Air Conditioning
-Taco Bell
-Walmarts
- Cold milk
-hot breakfasts
- the keyboards
-Bailee
-trampoline
-family GET TOGETHERS (they are more fun then just mi familia)
-mountain dew!!!!!!
-Kohls
-Ice cubes
- TV
-my room
-ipod/cell phone
(can be continued later)

What i WILL MISS FROM GERMANY (**-bringing home in a big bag, §§-ill take pictures)
-apfelschorle (tonic water mixed with apple juice) ***
-Spetzi (orange fanta mixed with coke)
-döner
-schnitzal
-the trains!!!!! oo will i miss the trains!!!!
-the bus rides
-Charly the dog
-The people yu meet while watching the soccer games
-the streets after winning ^^^^
- the pillows§§
-windows§§
-the bathrooms §§
-all the flowers on the houses
-any candy ***
-the alcohol i can drink (im responsible, i've only bought 2 drinks!!)
-the ICECREAM!!!!!!!!!! (i honestly have ice cream nearly everday, usually tirimuse (sp))
-the random spiney things in the middle of the walk places (they're soo fun!)
-open air markets
-H&M on literally every corner
-all the BMWs, Audis, Volkswagons, and mercedes
-NUTELLLAA!!!!!
-the school system
-the german people and parties!!

can be continued

Long Blog

2006-06-29T11:47:00.000-05:00

'15 there's still time for youTime to buy, Time to lose yourself Within a morning star 15 I'm all right with you 15, there's never a wish better than this When you only got 100 years to live '
I've had Five For Fightings 100's Years in my head for the past 2 days. We went to a youth hostile and in our giant room (i roomed with 9 other girls) we had a piano. And dear old Julie Driscoll played it many a times. It made me think about life and Lori Vincent. Gulp. Thats all im gonna say about that. Except for when we went to a Cathedral today (Gutenburg was buried in it) I lit a candle and said a silent pray for her.

Anyways, yesterday seems SOO long ago. a blur of giggles, train rides and meals. We got onto a train early on wednesday morning and got to Beim and took a loooonnnggggggggg boat ride on the Rhein river. It was gorgous and hilarious. 2 of the boys thought these group of girls also on the boat were BABES. so they started talking to them and stuff and then Frau Chow, walks up to them asking if they've taken their pills. FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. We eventually got off this boat in St. Goer (one of the guys got a number even) it instantly reminded me of a hilly old Cambridge. It was lovely. But the mile long hike up hill to our Hostile...wasnt so nice. Haha. it was kinda a dirty hostile but right next door was THE COOLEST CASTLE EVER. We went up there and it had all these secret passage ways and it was soo cool going through them and stuff.But before we went up there, me and 2 of my friends went into town and sat down for some italian food, then it turned out to add to 10 other people.It was amazingly good food and our waitress was so nice! We came back down and had a cook out..mmm brat wurst. We were all worn out and the room of teenage girls were all asleep by 11.30. Crazy..i know.

Today we went to Mainz, saw the Gutenberg Musuem..wow totally didnt change my life. Boring horrible movie that reminds me of the Raisens. or w.e then shopped around. Went to piyya hut..ice cream, more shopping, and walking, more ice cream then home. its a blur. Only a week left. Im both sad and happy.

Heidelberg and France

2006-06-27T11:26:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I went to Heidelberg and saw my dear old cousin Aaron. All of his pictures from the soccer games hahaha. OO grrr it was hot and we had to climb up this huge mountain to 'get a view' THEN we climbed down, crossed a bridge and started up ANOTHER MOUNTAIN to reach the castle. The castle wasnt worth the climb. It was boring, hot and reaked of B.O. And the train was loud and full of people both to and from.

Today we went to France and wahoo it was pretty fun. I lost my group of friends in the platz so i went with Maria for shoe shopping. She found a pair of PUMAS yes pumas which are usually near §100 here..for §54. THEN we went into this other store and i saw these great pair of Levis costing §65. I figured since i havnt touched my debit card yet, it would be a nice spurge. I ahem was also looking for a pair of jeans all weekend (yes we went shopping every day) But they fit great and i adore them. The hardest part was trying to find Mariah a pair of shoes when no one speaks either English or German and we didnt know her european shoe size. It was pretty amusing. Tomarrow we are staying in some city of night, so i doubt i will write anythign else until mid afternoon (your time) on Thursday.

Sigur Ros and Girman

2006-06-24T04:22:00.000-05:00

HOPPIPOLLA (Sigur Ros)

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I want to be like the old people in here...spashing in the puddles and being out of the ordinary for the age that i am. The some how remind me of Nana and Papa. I think this is because we talked about the last name Girman and how german it was. Gir means spear. Does anyone know from that side of the family where we lived? Near a river, lake or sea? That explains my cousins, grandpas, and father's love of fishing

Janine, Ice cream and a shot

2006-06-23T14:48:00.000-05:00

I started school today. Sat through a geography class with 6 other exchange students. The funny thing is that the class was on industry in america and we had no idea what he was talking about. But at 8.00 i went into the homeroom and before i could barly sit down in walks Janine. I practically jumped over the table saying hello. But i got her number and that enough made my day. Then we got a tour and heard the mayors 15 minute speech (yaawwwwwwnnnn) then me and the 'plastics' (my partners group of friends) and their partners all went out for ice cream and shopping. I almost bought this great pair a jeans but stopped when i saw the 100§ mark i was shocked! But i read some more Angels and Demons. At 4 the game started but the plastics got mistaken and it wasnt showing at the Platz. So we went out for some MORE ice cream and shopping. We came home and Uwe said that we will be going to a greek restaurant for dinner and ooo whatever i had was AMAZING!!!! very very filling. BUT Uwe said that if i drank this special drink it would help my stomach. This special drink was MY FIRST SHOT. It was strong, pepperminty and burned but was amazing. It actually helped my stomach a lot. Well tomarrow im off, shopping then hanging out with a plastic partner, barbeque/german soccer game then party party. Wahoo. And maybe on monday ill be seeing Aaron!

BACK FROM MÜNCHEN

2006-06-22T12:26:00.000-05:00

Early last saturday, me and 36 other chillins got on the long train ride from Frankenthal to Munich (Munchen) we stopped to switch trains but it took a total of 8 hours to get to our 'hotel' our hotel was a youth hostil which is just a hotel for mostly teens, we had a gorup from madison there when we arrived. We mostly just walked around A LOT. I#m talking at least 5km a day..in 90 degree weather. I dont know how many of you know this but its a rare find to find a place with a.c. I found out that ancient stone church are closer to 60 degrees and are LOVELY to be in. Ill tell zou each day..starting backwrods from today (thursday)#

Thursday
Ate the usual breakfast of rolls and fruit, then got on the bus and went to Stuttgart where not really anything happened. Another 2 hours and we arrived in Beitegheim and i tried Döner (lamb with sause in rolls) which turned out to be fantasic. Then ANOTHER 2.5 hours until we arrived back in Frankenthal

Wednsday
Went to Donchau...a concertration camp. Saddest thing ever. I felt nausous when i left. We went to the castle that is famous for being modelled for the Cinderella Castle. Schloss Neuschwabstein. The walk UP THE MOUTAIN was probably..2 miles..100% uphill in again 90 degree weather. But beautiful! It started to rain when we started our tour. But is slowed down when me, Joe Hubber, Crosby Hass, and Nikki Wickland decided to run down the moutain. bad BAD BAD idea. It started to pour..then hail to golf sized peirced. We got to the bottom dripping wet when we got to our pregnate teacher..she laughed until she saw our LOVELY welts (Joe and Crosby were being boy..and decided to run shirtless)

Tuesday
We left for Salzberg which was another beautiful city. We learned way way way too much about Moazart and got up in another castle which wasnt all that great. I think my favorite part was walking around the city with 3 of my friends being dorks.

Monday and Sunday
i cant really remember anything too sepcific because it was a blur. we got woken up by 2 of the over tired boys knocking on our doors and we couldnt go back to sleep. so it was all just walking around München and sleeping. By looking at my pictures i see the glockenspeil, a couple 100 pictures of churches, the englischer garten (too many naked old people!!!!!!!!!!!) and the Beer house. AND the olypmic stadium ..very good view

Funny story with the beer house though. So with the world cup going on...patroitism is hardcore. I've seen nearly every flag. SO being the hilarious boys we have. 4 of my friends decided to buy American flags. An this night it was Mexico against Austraila (i think!!!) and holy cow. The beer house was LOUD with national songs and such from both countries. All of a sudden this one table saw our boys flags and started chanting USA, USA. and it hilarious.

once i figure out how to put pictures onto the computer ill do so

ta ta ta!

Greetings from my room in GERMANY

2006-06-17T01:17:00.000-05:00

HEY sorrry its been almost 24 hours since i even got to germany. The plane ride was LONG especially on the case were every single song on my ipod disappeared. But i made a couple of new friends within the group of 35 which was good. I didnt sleep A WINK on there, i waited for the hour long bus ride from the airport to Frankenthal. Frankenthal is a really pretty place, every single house is pretty much covered with german flags (world cup) and flowers. After i got home and had a delicious meal of spaghetti (their neighbors are very much italian) i slept for i think 6 hours. Than after a german meal of brat wurst (with this amazing ranch like sause!!) i showered (36 hours w.o a shower, i smelled!!) I got ready for this "beach party." There was no water though but the sand was like Florida sand soft. I reunited with some the old germans and yes had ONE alcoholic drink. This is very good because some people had like 6. I had one and it was like a rasberry daquiri. Now in less than 2 hours. I#m offf the Munich, hopefully seeing my dear darling cousin Aaron in the next 5 days. Ill post some pictures soon of my host family and their adorable dog named Charly. Until then!!

I'm going to miss them...

2006-06-09T13:58:00.000-05:00

What? A surprise party for me? aww i love my friends with all of my heart!

HELLLOOOO

2006-05-27T18:33:00.000-05:00

So umm I like long walks on the beach, a good strawberry daiquri.. okay all done.

On here I, Abbey Girman, will be posting pictures from GERMANY wahoo! I leave JUNE 15TH and if you know me REALLY well, you know that I will take pictures everywhere. So I would probably check this daily if I were you.Be sure to comment everyday telling me that you miss me and love me.
ANYWAYS
Also, Frau Beenen/Chow will be taking pictures as well, mostly of the whole group though. you can see these pictures here.

Sadly, I wont be writing this until I leave. ta-tas my dears.

::Abbey::